News gathered 2024-11-16

(date: 2024-11-16 10:09:03)


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-16, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

John Fetterman says Democrats need to stop 'freaking out' over everything Trump does.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/john-fetterman-says-democrats-need-stop-freaking-everything-trump-rcna180270


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-16, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

How Jon Stewart Stays Hopeful In Uncertain Times.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j32Q4fJ67CE&t=5s


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-16, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Neo Meets The Oracle.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQJlBpPLHUM


We’ve Got Uranus All Wrong

date: 2024-11-16, from: 404 Media Group

An anomalous encounter with Uranus, a lost world preserved in Antarctic amber, ChatGPT at the poetry slam, and an exceptional nudibranch.


https://www.404media.co/weve-got-uranus-all-wrong/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-16, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Why are the Oakland A's playing in a minor league park in Sacramento next year? Does not compute.


https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/sep/26/oakland-athletics-final-game-john-fisher


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-16, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

What The Fuck Is A "Vaccine Skeptic"? #goodquestion


https://defector.com/what-the-fuck-is-a-vaccine-skeptic


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-16, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

I’d love to help a podcast client developer create the equivalent of Starter Packs. They would quickly become a standard. Influencers will love them. I have a list ready to go. Email me.


https://bsky.social/about/blog/06-26-2024-starter-packs


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-16, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Carl Sagan explains why it’s worth preserving our web writing. It would be great for one of the social web ventures to take an interest, so people of the future can understand how our generation destroyed the civilization our ancestors built and fought for.


https://www.threads.net/@davew/post/DCbJJs4OQJL


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-16, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

“At 78, Trump is not exactly the face of the party’s future.”


https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-15-2024?publication_id=20533&post_id=151731317&isFreemail=true&r=w33x&triedRedirect=true


Expanding the MC6847: Deciphering Fonts, Part 2

date: 2024-11-16, from: Retro Innovations blog

Another Player Enters the Game While searching for TANDY Color Computer external font solutions, I found information on a similar solution that was created for the Dragon 200e. As a TANO Dragon owner (basically, an imported Dragon Data Dragon 64), I was aware of the Dragon line, but the 200 (and 200e) were new to … Continue reading Expanding the MC6847: Deciphering Fonts, Part 2


https://www.go4retro.com/2024/11/16/expanding-the-mc6847-deciphering-fonts-part-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=expanding-the-mc6847-deciphering-fonts-part-2


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

I got lots of new followers on Bluesky too, did you all wonder how and why it happened? Also have any journos looked into who owns it, and who just made a big investment? Do some digging before you fall in love.


https://www.404media.co/the-great-migration-to-bluesky-gives-me-hope-for-the-future-of-the-internet/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

The Deep Roots of Deportation.


https://www.texasobserver.org/the-deep-roots-of-deportation/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

If you're looking for a feel-good sports documentary, I recommend The Comeback on Netflix, wherein the Boston Red Sox finally win the World Series in 2004. Because the Yankees are evil.


https://www.cinemablend.com/streaming-news/netflix-the-comeback-really-changed-way-i-look-at-red-sox-and-2004-world-series


M4 Macs Can’t Virtualize Older macOS

date: 2024-11-15, from: Michael Tsai

Howard Oakley: Running a macOS VM for any version before 13.4 Ventura on an M4 Mac results in a black screen, and the VM fails to boot. This is true whatever settings are used in the virtualiser, even if it’s set to boot the VM in Recovery mode. It’s also true when that VM has […]


https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/15/m4-macs-cant-virtualise-older-macos/


Lawsuit to Reveal Wikipedia Editors

date: 2024-11-15, from: Michael Tsai

Glyn Moody: As Techdirt stories attest, Wikipedia has been attacked in the past for publishing true information that somebody doesn’t like. As well as wanting articles to be censored, those behind such attacks often also demand the names of those who worked on the article. Something similar is now happening in India, where the Indian […]


https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/15/lawsuit-to-reveal-wikipedia-editors/


Firefox at 20

date: 2024-11-15, from: Michael Tsai

Kevin Purdy (Hacker News): Back in June 2002, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth was experiencing space for the first time, the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Microsoft was reaching its final arguments, and Adam Price, using what was then called Mozilla on a Mac, had an issue with persistent tooltips.That relic is no more, as […]


https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/15/firefox-at-20/


The State of Mozilla

date: 2024-11-15, from: Michael Tsai

Bryan Lunduke (via Hacker News): The Mozilla Foundation has released their latest annual report – covering the time up through December of 2022 (Mozilla’s reporting always lags by one year) – and something peculiar leaps out of the data:The compensation of the Mozilla CEO has skyrocketed (by millions)While the Mozilla revenue dropsAnd the Firefox Marketshare […]


https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/15/the-state-of-mozilla/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

It’s Time for Outgoing Democrats to Play Hardball. #amen


https://www.thebulwark.com/p/its-time-for-outgoing-democrats-to


Introduction to Marie Pruitt

date: 2024-11-15, from: Digital Humanities Quarterly News

Would you rather listen to this post instead? Check out the podcast version here: DRC Intro Podcast_Pruitt.mp3 Two truths and a lie: The road to my disciplinary identity has been paved with curiosity, bad assumptions, and lots of side quests. My first intellectual infatuation wasn’t language or literature, but mathematics. While I struggled with the […]

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https://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2024/11/15/introduction-to-marie-pruitt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=introduction-to-marie-pruitt


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Ten Tips for Reporting in an Autocracy.


https://www.cjr.org/political_press/ten-tips-for-reporting-in-an-autocracy.php


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts. (“No intention” isn’t very binding fwiw.)


https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/15/24297442/bluesky-no-intention-train-generative-ai-posts


Introduction to Toluwani Odedeyi

date: 2024-11-15, from: Digital Humanities Quarterly News

Hi, I’m Toluwani!  From a young age, I had an innate interest in finding elegant solutions to communication problems. Growing up in Nigeria, I crafted fictional stories that brought characters to life, using nothing but pencil and paper. As I grew older, I immersed myself in exploring Microsoft Word, so I could turn these paper […]

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https://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2024/11/15/introduction-to-toluwani-odedeyi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=introduction-to-toluwani-odedeyi


Revived Class Action Against McGraw Hill: the Importance of Publishing Contracts

date: 2024-11-15, from: Authors Union blogs

At the heart of the Flynn v. McGraw Hill case is a breach of contract claim. The plaintiffs argue that McGraw Hill’s royalty deductions for maintaining its online system violated the terms of the agreement. Central to the argument is the publisher’s promise to ‘publish at its own expense.’ This case serves as a prime example of how important it is to scrutinize the details of a publishing agreement, where the devil often lies.


https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/11/15/revived-class-action-against-mcgraw-hill-the-importance-of-publishing-contracts/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.


https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nobody_ever_went_broke_underestimating_the_intelligence_of_the_American_people


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Reports from 2008 indicated that Obama ultimately believed [RFK Jr's] controversial statements and a past arrest for heroin possession in the 1980s made Senate confirmation highly improbable.


https://www.newsweek.com/barack-obama-consider-rfk-jr-cabinet-report-1986475


Behind the Blog: Political Perspectives and Platforms

date: 2024-11-15, from: 404 Media Group

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we talk about data storage, political perspectives and platforms.


https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-political-perspectives-and-platforms/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

China's tight security, metal detectors at Tiananmen Square reveal changed nation.


https://www.npr.org/2024/11/15/nx-s1-5162319/china-security-tiananmen-square


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

One of the nicest features of Bluesky is that every user has an RSS feed, so you can follow people from Bluesky in any RSS-compatible feed reader.


https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3kh5rjl6bgu2i


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Imagine that you are a foreign leader who wishes to destroy the United States. How could you do so? The easiest way would be to get Americans to do the work themselves.


https://snyder.substack.com/p/decapitation-strike?publication_id=310897&post_id=151702288&isFreemail=true&r=w33x&triedRedirect=true


Asustor Flashstor Gen2 is an SSD-only NAS with 10 GbE LAN and an AMD Zen 3 processor

date: 2024-11-15, from: Liliputing

For years, most network-attached storage (NAS) devices were basically purpose-built computers designed to let you hook a large hard drive (or array of multiple drives) to your network to function as a media and file server, backup solution, and more. But these days you can find a growing number of NAS systems that don’t support […]

The post Asustor Flashstor Gen2 is an SSD-only NAS with 10 GbE LAN and an AMD Zen 3 processor appeared first on Liliputing.


https://liliputing.com/asustor-flashstor-gen2-is-an-ssd-only-nas-with-10-gbe-lan-and-an-amd-zen-3-processor/


Amazon says AI features are available now for all compatible Fire tablets

date: 2024-11-15, from: Liliputing

The new Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet that launched in October features the same processor as the previous-generation model. But it has more memory, a higher-resolution rear camera, and support for wireless charging. It’s a pretty modest update when it comes to hardware, which probably helps explain why it’s already on sale for $55 during […]

The post Amazon says AI features are available now for all compatible Fire tablets appeared first on Liliputing.


https://liliputing.com/amazon-says-ai-features-are-available-now-for-all-compatible-fire-tablets/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Whatever RFK Jr. Does, Darwinism Will Undo.


https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/whatever-rfk-jr-does-darwinism-will-undo-2b80ccbf9bd6


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage.


https://www.cjr.org/the_trump_reader/trump-threatens-new-york-times-penguin-random-house-critical-coverage.php


Introduction to Mehdi Mohammadi

date: 2024-11-15, from: Digital Humanities Quarterly News

I’ve been captivated by digital technology ever since computers began making their mark in Iran in the late ’90s. Back then, owning a computer was a luxury, but I finally got my hands on one when I started my undergrad studies in English Literature in 1999. By that time, major search engines like Yahoo! and […]

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https://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2024/11/14/introduction-to-mehdi-mohammadi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=introduction-to-mehdi-mohammadi


Introduction to Thais Rodrigues Cons

date: 2024-11-15, from: Digital Humanities Quarterly News

Writing and technology—either together or separately—have always played a big role in my identity. I was a middle-class Brazilian kid in the early 1990s. So I would write about my feelings in a journal, read and replicate poems, play the synthesizer, and eventually type on our family Windows 98 computer.  As a teenager, some of […]

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https://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2024/11/14/introduction-to-thais-rodrigues-cons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=introduction-to-thais-rodrigues-cons


date: 2024-11-15, from: Liliputing

Last year mini PC maker PELADN launched an external graphics dock called the PELADN Link S1 that allowed you to add a desktop graphics card to any PC with a Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, or compatible USB4 port. Now the company has launched a new model with an OCuLink connector for higher-speed connections to a […]

The post PELADN Link S-2 is an OCuLink graphics dock for under $100 appeared first on Liliputing.


https://liliputing.com/peladn-link-s-2-is-an-oculink-graphics-dock-for-under-100/


US-RSE November 2024 Newsletter

date: 2024-11-15, from: The United States Research Software Engineer Association

November 2024 - In this monthly newsletter, we share recent, current, and planned activities of the US-RSE Association, and related news that we think is of interest to US-RSE members. Newsletters are also available on our website alongside the growing resources and information on the US-RSE Association. To receive our newsletter, join US-RSE….


https://us-rse.org/2024-11-15-newsletter/